everyone could afford an automobile and the world was opened up for not only the

aristocracy, but the most all of the middle class as well. The very thing that

revolutionized the way people got from place to place was the automobile. So where did

this all begin? Long before the 1920?s were the Sumerians in 3500 BC who made use of

flat structures mounted on wheels. Was this the beginning of the automobile?

Thinking past (some centuries past) the stone age when the Sumerians pushed

these rediculous contraptions with wheels from place to place is when things really

started happening in lieu of the automobile world. In 1801 a full sized, self powered

automobile powered by steam was created be a man named Nicholas J. Cagnot. This

vehicle on average, could travel at around two miles per hour cnsidering that everything

on the machine stayed in tact. Good try Mr. Cagnot, but the average man could run that

fast. There were others that attempted to create a self-efficient automobile but as did

Some years later in Germany, 1866 to be exact, it was Karl Benz who

automobile faser and easier, but it made the price of the automobile drop by a large

across the nation. With the increased travel and roads came increased businesses along

hour. The Model-T initially created people?s lust for the automobile. After all, the

Many events followed Karl Benz?s automobile, thus creating a start to the

Despite the odds, Henry Ford wanted to make the auto affordable to everyone, not

today) to the upper-class. These early luxury cars were the symbol for who you were in

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